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Storying species extinction in Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame 《复仇者联盟3:无限战争》和《复仇者联盟4:终局之战》中物种灭绝的故事
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1386/ajpc_00067_1
Sophie Dungan
This article places two Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) films, Avengers: Infinity War () and Avengers: Endgame (), in dialogue with the Marvel comic books on which they are based. As this article demonstrates, in their depiction of Thanos and the partial species extinction event, the films deviate substantially from their source material to reflect a contemporary cultural interest and growing anxiety over the real-world threat of species extinction. However, as this article argues, Avengers: Infinity War’s and Avengers: Endgame’s ecocritical potential are limited, owing partly to the villain’s role in superhero films and comic books more broadly. Limits also owe to the anthropocentric viewpoint that underwrites much of superhero fiction. Superheroes may serve a conservative function as an upholder of the social order, but, as this article shows, in Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, as well as films and television series in the MCU set thereafter, this function often comes at the detriment of the conservation of nature and species-other-than-human.
本文将两部漫威电影宇宙(MCU)电影《复仇者联盟:无限战争》()和《复仇者同盟:终局之战》()与它们所依据的漫威漫画书进行对话。正如这篇文章所表明的那样,在对Thanos和部分物种灭绝事件的描述中,这些电影与原始材料有很大的偏离,以反映当代文化的兴趣和对现实世界物种灭绝威胁日益增长的焦虑。然而,正如本文所说,《复仇者联盟:无限战争》和《复仇者同盟:终局之战》的生态批判潜力有限,部分原因是反派在更广泛的超级英雄电影和漫画书中扮演的角色。局限性也要归功于以人类为中心的观点,这种观点为大多数超级英雄小说提供了支持。超级英雄作为社会秩序的维护者可能具有保守的功能,但正如本文所示,在《复仇者联盟:无限战争》和《复仇者同盟:终局之战》以及此后MCU系列的电影和电视剧中,这种功能往往损害了对自然和人类以外物种的保护。
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‘We prefer protégé’: The temporal function of sidekicks in Young Justice and Titans “我们更喜欢门生”:《年轻的正义》和《泰坦》中搭档的时间功能
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1386/ajpc_00070_1
Rusty Hatchell
Over the past four decades, since the transition of Robin into the Nightwing superhero persona in DC’s Tales of the Teen Titans #44 (July 1984), sidekick characters have become increasingly relevant in their narrative function for DC’s overall superhero storytelling and world-building strategies. By examining the comic book and television narratives across Teen Titans and Young Justice titles, this article argues for a critical examination in how sidekicks mature into independent superheroes and how this impacts the broader storytelling paradigm for DC and their related media. The animated Young Justice and live-action Titans series highlight the progression in a sidekick’s temporal function, guiding not only their own maturation into independent superheroes but also the overall evolution of the superhero storytelling genre, allowing the passage of time, the inevitable death of the superhero and the renaissance of the sidekick-turned-superhero.
在过去的四十年里,自从罗宾在DC的《少年泰坦传说》第44期(1984年7月)中转变为夜翼超级英雄角色以来,助手角色在DC的整体超级英雄叙事和世界构建策略中变得越来越重要。通过研究《少年泰坦》和《少年正义》系列的漫画书和电视故事,本文提出了一个批判性的观点,即配角如何成长为独立的超级英雄,以及这如何影响DC及其相关媒体的更广泛的叙事范式。动画版《少年正义》和真人版《泰坦》系列强调了助手时间功能的发展,不仅引导他们自己成长为独立的超级英雄,而且还引导了超级英雄叙事类型的整体演变,允许时间的流逝,超级英雄不可避免的死亡以及从助手变成超级英雄的复兴。
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Superheroes and Nazis: Re-examining the legacy of the Second World War in Eric Kripke’s The Boys 超级英雄与纳粹:在埃里克·克里普克的《男孩们》中重新审视第二次世界大战的遗产
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1386/ajpc_00066_1
Abigail Whittall
The television adaptation of The Boys, originally a comic book series written by Garth Ennis, has garnered attention for its graphic violence and satirical treatment of the superhero genre. The Boys engages with a number of critiques of the superhero genre and its tropes, one of which is the recurring presence of a Nazi supervillain. This article links The Boys to previous examples of comic books and screen adaptations which feature Nazis or similar fascist organizations, such as Captain America, Superman and X-Men. In particular, it argues that The Boys’s status as a subversive superhero narrative impacts the portrayal of Nazism in new ways, further troubling the distinction between superhero and supervillain and providing insight into contemporary cultural concerns. Through its representation of the superhero origin story and the Nazi character Stormfront, The Boys draws upon the memories of the Second World War in order to condemn the rise of fascism in the twenty-first century. Despite this ostensibly worthy goal, it is also important to consider criticisms of this type of representation of the historically specific atrocities of the Second World War, the role of exploitation and its resulting reception by viewers.
改编自《男孩们》的电视剧最初是由加思·恩尼斯撰写的漫画系列,因其对超级英雄类型的暴力画面和讽刺处理而备受关注。《男孩们》对超级英雄类型及其比喻进行了许多批评,其中之一是纳粹超级反派的反复出现。这篇文章将《男孩们》与之前的漫画书和改编电影联系起来,这些漫画书和电影以纳粹或类似的法西斯组织为主角,如美国队长、超人和X战警。特别是,它认为《男孩们》作为颠覆性超级英雄叙事的地位以新的方式影响了对纳粹主义的刻画,进一步扰乱了超级英雄和超级反派之间的区别,并提供了对当代文化关注的洞察。通过对超级英雄起源故事和纳粹人物风暴前线的再现,《男孩们》借鉴了第二次世界大战的记忆,以谴责法西斯主义在21世纪的兴起。尽管这是一个表面上有价值的目标,但同样重要的是,要考虑对第二次世界大战历史上特定暴行的这种表现形式的批评,剥削的作用及其由此受到观众的欢迎。
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‘You don’t feel anything?’ The Cold War, family affect and reproductive politics in Black Widow “你什么感觉都没有?”《黑寡妇》中的冷战、家庭影响与生育政治
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1386/ajpc_00068_1
Jena DiMaggio
This article explains how Marvel’s Black Widow film constructs both political liberation and personal satisfaction as dependent on a striving towards the heteronormative family. The family is, to use Sara Ahmed’s framework, the ultimate ‘happy object’: a relationship that promises social harmony as well as happiness and fulfilment, and the characters strive towards and ultimately agree upon the family as the good for which they fight. The film simultaneously enacts a Cold War politic by coding the enemy – the Red Room – as a communist Other whose cruelty manifests by perverting the model of the American nuclear family in favour of an extreme patriarchal model that foregoes normative reproductive. Consequently, the establishment of justice resides in defeating this communist Other and reinstituting the nuclear family, a narrative imported nearly wholesale from the Cold War era.
这篇文章解释了漫威的《黑寡妇》电影如何将政治解放和个人满足构建为依赖于对非规范家庭的努力。用萨拉·艾哈迈德的框架来说,家庭是最终的“幸福对象”:一种承诺社会和谐、幸福和成就的关系,角色们努力争取并最终同意家庭是他们为之奋斗的利益。这部电影同时再现了冷战政治,将敌人——红房间——编码为共产主义他者,其残酷表现为扭曲美国核心家庭的模式,支持放弃规范生育的极端父权模式。因此,正义的建立在于击败这个共产主义的他者,重建核心家庭,这是一种几乎完全从冷战时期引进的叙事。
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Paternalism, performative masculinity and the post-9/11 cowboy in Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy 克里斯托弗·诺兰《黑暗骑士》三部曲中的父权主义、表演性男子气概和9/11后牛仔
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1386/ajpc_00069_1
Cathrine Avery
The superhero as a masculine ideal has been extensively scrutinized; he is perceived as a man of physical strength, selflessness and conformity but also one capable of aggression, toxic violence, vigilantism and emotional detachment. Nolan’s superhero, Batman, is situated within this discourse of contradictory masculinity. Recent scholarly discussion has considered how superheroes, including Batman, portray a masculinity designed to fulfil the desires of a post-9/11 audience. This article will extend this examination of contradictory masculinity to consider the father figures who teach Batman to be a superhero and what their instruction identifies as desirable heroic traits in the decade following the 9/11 tragedy. This form of heroic masculinity is not new and exhibits an uncanny resemblance to the cowboy who, like the superhero, is a stylized, uniquely American character. This article will argue that this is a masculinity that is learned and then performed: it reveals the imitative nature of gender, such that Nolan’s trilogy acts as a series of lessons in the problematic, fictive and performative expressions of masculinity in a post-9/11 world.
作为男性理想的超级英雄受到了广泛的关注;他被认为是一个有体力、无私和顺从的人,但也有侵略性、有毒暴力、私刑和情感超然的能力。诺兰笔下的超级英雄蝙蝠侠就处在这种矛盾的男性气质的话语中。最近的学术讨论考虑了包括蝙蝠侠在内的超级英雄如何塑造一种旨在满足9/11后观众欲望的男子气概。这篇文章将扩展对矛盾的男子气概的研究,以考虑在9/11悲剧发生后的十年里,教导蝙蝠侠成为超级英雄的父亲形象,以及他们的教导所认定的可取的英雄特质。这种英雄气概并不是什么新鲜事,它与牛仔有着惊人的相似之处,牛仔和超级英雄一样,都是一个风格化的、独特的美国角色。这篇文章将认为,这是一种学习然后表演的男子气概:它揭示了性别的模仿本质,因此诺兰的三部曲在9/11后的世界中为男子气概的问题性、虚构性和表演性表达提供了一系列教训。
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Using Superheroes and Villains in Counseling and Play Therapy: A Guide for Mental Health Professionals, Lawrence C. Rubin (ed.) (2020) 在咨询和游戏治疗中使用超级英雄和恶棍:心理健康专业人士指南,劳伦斯·C·鲁宾(编辑)(2020)
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1386/ajpc_00071_5
Ruth Barratt-Peacock
Review of: Using Superheroes and Villains in Counseling and Play Therapy: A Guide for Mental Health Professionals, Lawrence C. Rubin (ed.) (2020) New York: Routledge, 323 pp., ISBN 978-0-42945-495-0, e-book, AUD 68.99 ISBN 978-1-13861-326-3, h/bk, AUD 242.00 ISBN 978-1-13861-327-0, p/bk, AUD 75.99
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‘You’re a refugee, are you not?’ ‘Extraordinary bodies’, monstrous outsiders and US refugee policies in superhero comics “你是个难民,是不是?”超级英雄漫画中的“非凡身体”、怪物外来者和美国难民政策
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1386/ajpc_00065_1
Tina Powell
In the 1970s and 1980s, comic book publishing giants DC and Marvel sought to diversify their cast of superheroes to better represent their US readership. While the publishers’ increasingly diverse cast of numerous US constituencies sought to reflect a shift towards greater representation, the flow of migrants/immigrants/refugees that marked the cold war years of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s remained largely out of the pages of mainstream comics. However, Marvel’s Chris Claremont and DC’s Marv Wolfman and George Perez introduced Vietnamese refugees to two teenage teams in the early 1980s. This article seeks to examine the way these characters, Marvel’s Karma and DC’s Thunder and Lightning, reflect US political rhetoric concerning the South East Asian refugee crisis in the late 1970s/early 1980s. Marvel’s and DC’s characters represent two poles of political thought concerning refugees; Karma is depicted as a victim of communism who is rescued by the United States, while Thunder and Lightning are villains who seek to upend US patriarchal relationships with Asian nations. Using comic studies’ scholarship and current discussions in critical refugee studies, this article argues that the depictions of these refugees reflect national discourse concerning the ideals of the United States.
在上世纪七八十年代,漫画出版巨头DC和漫威试图让他们的超级英雄阵容多样化,以更好地代表他们的美国读者。尽管出版商越来越多样化的美国选区阵容试图反映出向更大代表性的转变,但20世纪60年代、70年代和80年代冷战时期移民/移民/难民的流动在很大程度上仍然没有出现在主流漫画的画面中。然而,漫威的克里斯·克莱蒙特、DC的马尔夫·沃尔夫曼和乔治·佩雷斯在20世纪80年代初将越南难民引入了两个青少年团队。这篇文章试图研究这些角色,漫威的卡玛和DC的雷霆与闪电,如何反映美国在20世纪70年代末/ 80年代初关于东南亚难民危机的政治言论。漫威和DC的角色代表了关于难民的两个极端的政治思想;Karma被描绘成被美国拯救的共产主义受害者,而Thunder和Lightning则是试图颠覆美国与亚洲国家父权关系的恶棍。本文利用漫画研究的学术研究和当前批判性难民研究的讨论,认为对这些难民的描述反映了关于美国理想的民族话语。
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Re-examining superhero politics in popular culture 重新审视流行文化中的超级英雄政治
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1386/ajpc_00064_2
C. Wilson, L. Piatti-Farnell
This Special Issue re-examines the part played by superheroes in contemporary narratives within popular culture. In so doing, it explores how these iconic figures reflect identities and meaning in social, cultural, political and historical contexts.
本期特刊重新审视了超级英雄在当代流行文化叙事中所扮演的角色。在此过程中,它探讨了这些标志性人物在社会、文化、政治和历史背景下如何反映身份和意义。
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The me you see: The creative identity as constructed in music documentaries 你看到的我:音乐纪录片中构建的创作身份
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1386/ajpc_00048_1
Angelique Nairn
Stereotypically, creative people are considered intelligent, immature, demanding, aware, receptive, autonomous, flexible, introverted, self-confident, unconventional and asocial. They are driven by a desire to create, peer acceptance and, to an extent, commercial gain. They negotiate their creative persona by seeking validation from others. Accordingly, creative people are active agents in the negotiation of their identities, and they can communicate their attitudes and feelings towards their work through the stories depicted in documentaries. Netflix has released several documentaries capturing the creative process and projects of musicians and singers, which offer a ‘behind the scenes’ account of what it is like working in the music industry. These same documentaries offer insights into what it means to be a creative navigating the trappings of project-based work, questions of authenticity, audience and management demands, and the pressures of making successful music. The purpose of this research is to use thematic analysis to explore the documentaries of Shawn Mendes, Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, Ariana Grande and Queen + Adam Lambert for how they conceptualize the creative identity and whether they maintain or challenge the stereotypes that continue to be perpetuated in the media.
刻板印象中,有创造力的人被认为聪明、不成熟、要求高、有意识、善于接受、自主、灵活、内向、自信、非传统和反社会。他们被创造的欲望、同行的认可以及在某种程度上的商业利益所驱动。他们通过寻求他人的认可来协商自己的创造性人格。因此,有创造力的人是身份协商的积极参与者,他们可以通过纪录片中描绘的故事来传达他们对作品的态度和感受。Netflix发布了几部纪录片,捕捉了音乐家和歌手的创作过程和项目,这些纪录片“幕后”讲述了在音乐行业工作的感受。这些纪录片让我们深入了解了什么是创造性的,如何驾驭基于项目的作品、真实性问题、观众和管理需求,以及制作成功音乐的压力。本研究的目的是使用主题分析来探索Shawn Mendes、Taylor Swift、Beyoncé、Ariana Grande和Queen+Adam Lambert的纪录片,了解他们如何概念化创作身份,以及他们是否保持或挑战媒体中持续存在的刻板印象。
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Othering the ‘bag-lady’: Examining stereotypes of vulnerable and homeless women in popular culture 其他的“流浪女士”:审视大众文化中对弱势和无家可归妇女的刻板印象
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1386/ajpc_00052_1
Susan Ursula Anne Smith, J. Coghlan
To protect their membership rights to social resources, services and benefits, Australian citizens constantly renegotiate and reconceptualize sociocultural and political parameters around who belongs as a rights-worthy member of their society. Popular culture has the potential to shape the social, cultural and political attitudes that underpin these considerations. Popular culture mediums such as film and television are visual and narrative devices that posit binaries such as good/bad, men/women, citizen/non-citizen and so on. In particular, the binary of good/bad acts as a discourse through which audiences develop an understanding of what actions and behaviours are considered socially and culturally acceptable, and what actions and behaviours are not. This article seeks to broaden understandings of popular culture’s potential to influence how a society construes its social strictures around who is a member of the hegemonic group and who is the ‘other’. It examines depictions of poor, vulnerable and homeless women characters in film that frame them as the monstrous ‘other’ and argues that these representations negatively impact the visibility of real women who are poor, vulnerable and homeless in Australia, within spaces of sociopolitical discourse. The ongoing repercussions of which, it is contended, are that the needs of this cohort are less visible to the governments and policymakers who are tasked with protecting them.
为了保护其成员获得社会资源、服务和福利的权利,澳大利亚公民不断重新谈判和重新定义社会文化和政治参数,围绕谁属于他们社会中值得享有权利的成员。流行文化有可能形成支撑这些考虑的社会、文化和政治态度。电影和电视等流行文化媒介是一种视觉和叙事手段,它假设了好/坏、男人/女人、公民/非公民等二元性。特别是,好/坏的二元性行为是一种话语,观众通过这种话语了解哪些行为和行为被认为是社会和文化可接受的,哪些行为和行动不可接受。这篇文章试图拓宽对流行文化的理解,影响一个社会如何围绕谁是霸权群体的成员和谁是“他者”来构建其社会约束。它研究了电影中对贫穷、脆弱和无家可归的女性角色的描述,这些角色将她们塑造成可怕的“他者”,并认为这些描述在社会政治话语的空间内对澳大利亚贫穷、脆弱、无家可归的真实女性的知名度产生了负面影响。有人认为,这一群体的持续影响是,负责保护他们的政府和政策制定者不太了解他们的需求。
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